University of California, Santa Barbara Office of Architects and Engineers Collection, ca. 1949-1986

Summary

Creators:

University of California, Santa Barbara. Office of Architects and Engineers

Abstract:

The Office of Architects and Engineers collection contains plans, reports, and committee minutes relating to the design and construction of campus buildings and facilities.

Extent:

0.8 linear feet (1.5 document boxes, 1 oversize flat box and 1 map cabinet)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

University of California, Santa Barbara Office of Architects and Engineers collection. UArch 63. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The Office of Architects and Engineers collection contains plans, reports, and committee minutes relating to the design and construction of campus buildings and facilities. The collection generally covers the period of the university's history when it was still the Santa Barbara College, in 1950-1979. The Office of Architects and Engineers was a subdivision of the Office of the Vice Chancellor. Campus Design and Facilities Management, also a subdivision of the Office of the Vice Chancellor, now manages the same issues and projects as the Office of Architects and Engineers. The files are arranged as received, generally in chronological order.

Campus Design and Facilities Management maintains a website: http://facilities.ucsb.edu/

Acquisition information:

Undetermined.

Physical location:

Del Sur, University Archives (box 1-2); University Archives Oversize (box 3).

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

In University Archives:

• Facilities Management records, UArch 27.
• Architects and Engineers folder in University Archives, Photographs.
• Buildings folders in University Archives, Photographs.
• Physical Planning Committee records, UArch 59.
• Demorest Davenport papers, FacP 45, for slides of the construction of the Marine Laboratory.

In Special Collections and Main Library:

• University of California environmental impact statement initial study/negative declaration : campus event facility Santa Barbara campus. Special Collections GV405 .U55 1976.
• Natural history resources survey for West Campus area, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1971-72. Compiled by Jodi Bennett for Office of Architects and Engineers. Special Collections QH76.5.C2 N36 1972.
• Proposal for campus traffic study. Memo to Office of Architects and Engineers. Special Collections HE372.S26 P76 1970.
• Ward Memorial Boulevard and Goleta Slough. Government Information Center, Local; Science and Engineering Library; Special Collections TD194.6 .W37 1969.
• UCSB parking control. Special Collections LB3253 .U27 1968.
• Preliminary organization plan, University of California, Santa Barbara : draft. Special Collections LD781.S292 P74 1966.
• Aerial topography [maps of University of California, Santa Barbara]. Map & Imagery Lab 3853.S3:282:2U5s 1 .U5; Map & Imagery Lab 3853 .S3:282:2U5s 4(80) .C3.

Publications by the later Office of Campus Planning & Design, and Campus Design and Facilities Management are searchable in the online catalog, Pegasus.

Indexed terms

Names:

University of California, Santa Barbara. Office of Architects and Engineers
University of California, Santa Barbara. Campus Design and Facilities

Restrictions:

None.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

University of California, Santa Barbara Office of Architects and Engineers collection. UArch 63. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:

UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

UC Santa Barbara Library

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US

Contact:

(805) 893-3062

special@library.ucsb.edu

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